Saturday, June 20, 2009

Day 13 Nothing Going On (no movement)

Well, just a short blog to let everybody know we’re fine but have been waiting on BMW to try and find out what is wrong with my bike.  They gave up yesterday and said they couldn’t fix it! !

That’s a first for me.  They can’t fix it.  Even their master BMW mechanic “threw in the towel”.  I don’t think that would EVER happen in the “lower forty-eight”. 

He spend a LOT of time with the bike hooked to the special BMW computer analyzer and he never got one fault show up.  The bike just wouldn’t run right. 

The symptoms are:

From idle or very low speed, the engine will miss intermittently.  Some times it’s like it misses on one cylinder for every other stroke for about ten feet or so and other times it’s like it misses on one cylinder solid for twenty feet or so and other times it will start off from a stop without missing at all.  But rarely will it start off without missing at least some. 

But, when you get if off idle or slow speed, like going down the highway at forty or so and you crank on the throttle, it will go like a scalded cat.  It will not miss any.  All you have to do, when it is going along at 45mph is turn the throttle and the bike accelerates instantly up to what ever speed you try to get to and it won’t miss a stroke all the way to ninety or more! 

Leading up to this problem, the bike was stuttering when put under load.  Like when you go down the road at fifty and then crank the throttle, it would miss a lot as it was accelerating.  I first tried new plugs for this problem and then tried a new fuel filter.  The new fuel filter fixed that problem for a couple of days and then this new problem came up. 

We’re moving on tomorrow since they gave up and I’ll start updating the blog again but if someone has an idea about what could be wrong, just send me an email at hpa_missouri@hotmail.com

I have been thinking that it could be a problem with the “throttle position sensor” not being a “smooth resistance” when it is at its lowest settings but that should have shown as a fault in his computer when running it on the computer.  ?  ? ??

 

On the road again! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

3 comments:

  1. Hi Guys,

    I am glad to hear from both of you . After no movement for 3 days. It would not have been so bad if your GPS had not had your bike parked at the Providence Alaska Medical Center.
    Are you going to make a run stright home starting tomorrow? Have a safe trip.
    Barry

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  2. You know, Harry, that I could tell you what's wrong with the bike... but then, I'd have to... well, you know,...
    Hooray for computers and computer diagnostics... they never go wrong!

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  3. You are so building up "beat me until I'm black and blue" points ! ! ! !

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